1st Edition
Capturing the Power of Diversity
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This stimulating book explores the many ways in which social group workers approach diversity. Capturing the Power of Diversity represents a range of interests and approaches to the challenges faced by group workers throughout the world. It illustrates the complexity, creativity, and excitement of the diversity concept and it explores how practitioners manage and adjust to diversity and use its... Read more
Contents
Introduction: The Power of Diversity
- Group Work and Ethnic Diversity
- Social Group Work, Social Action in the Twenty-First Century Economic and Political Context
- Social Group Work, Sink or Swim: Where Is Group in a Generalist Curriculum?
- The Crisis of Diversity
- Building an Empirical Foundation for Social Work With Groups
- Group Work for What? Group Work Linkage of Micro- and Macro-Social Policy Issues
- Developing Professional Identity Through Social Group Work: A Social Development Systems (SDS) Model for Education
- Group Work With Children of Substance Abusers: Beyond the Basics
- Utilizing a Group Approach to Improve the Social Skills of Children With Learning Disabilities
- The Use of Self in Group Work: Power and Empowerment
- Past Practice, Future Prospects: Reminiscence Group Work for the Twenty-First Century (Tom Hopkins)
- Social Group Work in Hong Kong: Future Challenges for the 1990s
- The Action Component of Group Work Practice: Empowering the Client
- Treating the Chronically Ill in an Outpatient Hospital Setting: Does Group Work Work?
- What Are We Teaching as Group Work? A Content Analysis of Undergraduate and Graduate Syllabi
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Marvin D Feit, John S Wodarski, John H Ramey, Aaron R Mann
